Advanced Graduate Training Program in Neurobiology & Behavior

我们要求继续为从事翻译相关神经科学研究的高级（3 -5年级）研究生提供培训资助。培训补助金将开放给神经生物学和行为学专业的学生，就像过去一样，从现在开始，也将开放给哥伦比亚大学细胞、分子和生物医学研究综合专业的学生。要求为5名学生提供支持。启动和继续这一培训计划的动力是希望为我们的学生提供最好的准备，以实现利用他们的科学培训的生产性职业。具体而言，我们打算加强统计和定量方法的训练，促进合作研究，并鼓励学生研究神经系统疾病之间的共性。特别是，我们将支持一批骨干学生开展对神经系统疾病具有转化意义和相关性的跨学科研究。我们将进一步支持由具有不同实验专业知识的共同导师指导的此类研究。此外，我们将通过“专业技能”和“神经和精神疾病生物学”的继续课程，为这些学生和其他项目中的学生提供实验室外培训。我们还将在项目中提供新的增值组件：生物统计学系副教授刘正勋博士将为学员及其导师提供一对一的统计咨询和建议，他将与PI一起参加学员的定期会议。另一个新的组成部分是每年举办一次定量方法讲习班，并要求受训者参加年度NINDS T32方案讲习班。这些培训机会的设计是为了使我们支持的学员以及哥伦比亚大学其他神经科学专业的学生受益。该项目将由现任联席pi乌尔里希·亨格斯特（Ulrich Hengst）指导，现任联席pi劳埃德·格林（Lloyd Greene）将在本轮融资周期结束后卸任。该项目将有56位初级和高级导师，他们在转化神经科学相关领域工作。监督将由神经生物学和行为学及综合项目主任、神经生物学和行为学项目咨询委员会以及该项目支持的当前和过去学生的反馈提供。在项目的前9年里，25名学生得到了来自25个不同学院的导师/共同导师的支持。出版记录、论文完成率、保留率、获得外部支持的成功、科学事业的继续、合格和共同指导的申请人数量的增加以及学生的反馈都表明该计划正在实现其目标。这一点，再加上向综合项目的学生开放培训补助金，支持了将受资助学生人数从目前的4人增加到5人的要求。

We request continued support for a training grant for advanced (3rd-5th year) graduate students engaged in translationally relevant neuroscience research. The training grant will be open to students enrolled in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program as it has been in the past and from now on also in the Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies at Columbia University. Support for five students is requested. The impetus for initiating and continuing this training program is the desire to provide the best possible preparation of our students to fulfill productive careers that draw on their scientific training. Specifically, we intend to enhance the training in statistical and quantitative methods, foster collaborative research, and encourage students to study commonalities between nervous system disorders. In particular, we will support a cadre of students carrying out cross-disciplinary research that has translational significance and relevance to neurological diseases. We will further favor and support such research that is directed by co-mentors with different experimental expertise. In addition, we will provide out-of-laboratory training of these and other students in the programs via a continuing course in ‘Professional Skills’ and a course in ‘Biology of Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders’. We will also offer new value-added components in the program: Dr. Cheng-Shiun Leu, Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics, will provide one-on-one statistical counseling and advise for the trainees and their mentors, and he will participate in the regular meetings of the trainees with the PI. Another new component is a yearly quantitative approaches workshop and the requirement for trainees to participate in the Annual NINDS T32 Program workshop. These training opportunities are designed to be leveraged so that they benefit our supported trainees as well as other neuroscience-oriented students at Columbia. The program will be directed by the current co-PI Ulrich Hengst with the current co-PI Lloyd Greene stepping down at the end of the current funding cycle. The program will have 56 mentors at both junior and senior levels, who work in areas of relevance to translational neuroscience. Oversight will be provided by the directors of the Neurobiology and Behavior and the Integrated program, by the advisory committee of the Neurobiology and Behavior program, and by feedback from current and past students supported by the program. In the first 9 years of the program, 25 students have been supported with mentorship/co-mentorship by 25 different faculty. Publication records, thesis completion, retention rates, success in gaining outside support, continuation in science careers, increasing numbers of qualified and co-mentored applicants, and student feedback all indicate that the program is meeting its goals. This and the opening of the training grant to students from the Integrated program support the request to increase the number of supported students to five from the current number of four.